A new study from Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) on the health impacts of exposure to salon chemicals on the (mostly) women who work in personal care salons is the first of its kind. The study, Beauty and Its Beast: Unlocking the Impact of Toxic Chemicals on Salon Workers, indicates long-term exposure to products routinely used in salons leads to an array of negative health conditions frequently suffered by beauticians and other salon workers.
A receptionist at a Bronx, New York beauty salon who was fired after giving co-workers an OSHA fact sheet about formaldehyde hazards will get $65,000 in lost wages, after the agency stepped in to enforce whistleblower provisions of the OSH Act.
A salon manager who was fired after warning her colleagues about an occupational health hazard will get $165,000 from the salon, in a settlement with the U.S. Labor Dept.
OSHA is suing the owner of a Bronx, NY hair salon for firing a worker who warned her fellow employees about the dangers of formaldehyde – an ingredient in many professional hair styling products.
A study being published in the August issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (JOEH) found that a popular hair straightening product used in hair salons could expose hair styliststo airborne formaldehyde at levels above the limits determined by OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), better known as Cal/OSHA.
